Openverse is an open-source search engine for open content developed as part of the WordPress project. It searches Creative Commons licensed and public domain content from dozens of different sources. The software is licensed under the MIT License.
This repository also contains the following directories. Brand Brand assets for Openverse such as logo and icon and guidelines for using these assets Templates Jinja templates that can be rendered into common scaffolding code for the project To use the Openverse API, please refer to the API consumer documentation. Pull requests are welcome! Feel free to join us on Slack and discuss the project with the engineers and community members on openverse. You are welcome to take any open issue in the tracker labelled help wanted or good first issue ; there's no need to ask for permission in advance . Other issues are open for contribution as well, but may be less accessible or well-defined in comparison to those that are explicitly labelled. We would also like to thank our former maintainers @AetherUnbound, @sarayourfriend, @stacimc and @zackkrida for their invaluable contributions to Openverse, which have shaped the project and made it what it is today.
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Openverse is an open-source search engine for open content developed as part of the WordPress project. It searches Creative Commons licensed and public domain content from dozens of different sources. The software is licensed under the MIT License.
Openverse indexes over 700 million items.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).